Machine Quilting Quick Tips
Today’s Topic: Free Motion Quilting Play Good Morning, Quilters! Today we have a serious topic: play time! When learning a new skill or honing an old one, play time is essential to developing new ideas and innovating. Play is the time spent working on technique-without an end goal in mind. The only goal is pure…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips
Good Morning, Quilters! Let’s start the week with a quick tip on quilting speed control. But first, a big thank you to all who commented and shared their stories on Friday-Nurse and Doctor Appreciation. And I LOVED all the stories about readers of LKQ being saved by penicillin as young children! –Be sure to the…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips and more
Happy Monday, Quilters! Today: a machine quilting quick tip-barefoot is best! Have you ever heard of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson? He was a famous American baseball player who doffed his cleats because they gave him blisters–earning him his famous moniker. What about the Barefoot Running craze? Though scientific research has yet to…
Machine Quilting and more
Buongiorno, Quilters! How do YOU use quilting practice pieces? I love to turn my practice pieces and blocks into small works that I use around the house. I call them “vase quilts” and I try to match the fabrics to the flowers. A Quilt by Any Other Name I made this log cabin (the cut…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips and more
Good Morning, Quilters! What should you do about quilting mistakes? Should you stop immediately and rip out the stitches? Or should you continue quilting and fix it later?Or maybe you could leave the quilting mistake and never rip it out? To rip or not to rip…that is the question! I rarely-very rarely– rip out any…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips
Good Morning, Quilters! Today we are discussing whether or not it is okay to do the binding before the quilting is finished. Before we get started…I had to say I laughed out loud at how many of you saw “MOM” and “WOW” in yesterdays tutorial of The Egg and Dart motif! I will always think…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips and more
Good Morning, Quilters! Today, a quick look at quilt with a winning motif combination: The Forget-Me-Not and Nora’s Rose. Yesterday, we reviewed the lovely, Forget-Me-Not motif. Nora’s Rose Tutorial Nora’s Rose step-by-step tutorial is available in the LKQ Flower Motif Tutorials and in my first book, Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3. Also, check out the…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips and more
Good Morning, Quilters! Today, we have a Nancy Drew style mystery, one we can all relate to—The Case of the Missing Thread Label! A few weeks ago, we discussed thread weight and how it determines the look of our machine quilting. Read Understanding of Thread Weight. Then, we used thread weight to choose the correct…
Machine Quilting Quick Tips
Hello!? Hello!? Good Morning, Quilters! We are settling into our new home here at Lori Kennedy Quilts! Thank YOU so much for joining us here! Unfortunately, many of YOU are not receiving email notifications of the new posts. Rest assured, we are aware of the problem and our developers at Lifted Logic are working to…
Machine Quilting Basics and more
Good Morning, Quilters! Today’s machine quilting quick tip is in response to something I occasionally observe while teaching workshops. (My workshop schedule is very limited, but I am considering all warm climate opportunities in Jan, Feb, March 2019 LOL!) While you are machine quilting, never rotate the entire quilt like it is a steering wheel!…
